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October 2022
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Stable Diffusion

The Machine Vision & Learning Group led by Prof. Dr. Björn Ommer has developed a powerful image synthesis algorithms. Together with the start-up Stability AI, they have trained a neural network on billions of images. Their open-source work has been published in CVPR and has been featured in many news media including Der Spiegel, The New York Times, and Forbes.

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Kick-off relAI

The kick-off event for the three DAAD-funded Konrad Zuse Schools of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence happened in September. Our team proudly presented our joint "Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI)", with Prof. Dr. Stephan Günnemann (TUM) and Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok (LMU) as directors, Prof. Dr. Frauke Kreuter (LMU) and Prof. Dr. Eyke Hüllermeier (LMU) as members of the steering committee also including Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Hirche and Prof. Dr. Daniel Rückert, as well as Dr.-Ing. Monika Michaelis (LMU), Dr. Marco Barden (TUM) and Dr. Emmelie Korell (TUM) as science managers. The first cohort of Master's and PhD students will start in October.

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Two ERC Grants for LMU

The European Research Council has awarded two Proof of Concept Grants to scientists from medicine and computational linguistics at LMU. In the project Respond2Hate (Responsive classifiers against hate speech in low-resource settings), Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze is seeking to develop a pilot browser extension that allows users to locally remove hateful content from their social media feeds themselves – including in countries with little representation in current training datasets.

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"We imitate each other when we talk"

In this video, Prof. Dr. Jonathan  Harrington, the Chair of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing and Director of the institute of the same name at LMU, talks about how artificial intelligence can be used to study changes in spoken language over time.

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LMU Klinikum: Emergency care with AI at the Oktoberfest

This year, for the first time, a computer tomograph (CT) will be used directly on-site at the Munich Oktoberfest to examine injured visitors. The team at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Radiology at the LMU Hospital also relies on the use of artificial intelligence (AI): The LMU spin-off health IT company deepc has equipped the device with leading algorithms for CT examinations of the head.

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Donate to AI Research at LMU

AI@LMU has started a new fund to support research and teaching. The funds will be used to facilitate research across subjects. We would be grateful for subscribers to share this page.

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UPCOMING EVENTS
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Upcoming Courses on AI

This upcoming semester will feature over 30 courses about artificial intelligence or machine learning at various faculties of LMU. We hope this list might help some students discover interesting lectures or seminars from other faculties as well.
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Munich AI Lectures

Prof. Dr. Max Welling from the University of Amsterdam will give a talk titled "The PDE Prior" on October 5. The talk will be live-streamed online.
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CAS: Next Generation AI

The Center for Advanced Studies will again hold a lecture series this coming semester. The first event will be a panel discussion on "The Future of Astrophysics" by Prof. Dr. Daniel Gruen, Prof. Dr. Lukas Heinrich from TUM, and Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng, moderated by Dr. Jenny Sorce on October 25, 7 pm.
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Statistics for the Public Good

As part of the BERD Academy, there will be a workshop series titled "Statistics for the Public Good – Infrastructures for Decision Making, Research, and Discourse" in Munich, free and open to everyone. The series will be held October 10 to 13 and is organized by Prof. Dr. Frauke Kreuter and will feature workshops by Prof. Dr. Walter J. Radermacher and Prof. Dr. Julia Lane (NYU).
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